>>>> "DK" == Dhruva KRISHNAMURTHY
<Dhruva_KRISHNAMURTHY(a)delmia.com> writes:
DK> For offering to be a Pre-Tester for GNU Emacs - The response I got!!
I've also been turned down.
DK> The Open Software development is NOT SO OPEN AS IT SHOULD BE!! I now know how
DK> open and accessable XEmacs. I admire the openess of XEmacs development
DK> community.
Even the XEmacs community is not as open as it should be.
>> As far as I know, Emacs 21 isn't in pretest yet (but
might be any
>> day). Also, there is a closed list of pretesters. Not sure whom to
>> ask if you want to become a member.
> <gerd(a)gnu.org> - However he's not keen on
"accepting" new
> contributors untill the next release is out.
But Gerd is a good guy - the closedness is probably exclusively due to rms.